American Physical Society announces "Outstanding Referees" for 2017
Contact: Eunice Toro, American Physical Society, [email protected], 631-591-4047
Ridge, NY, 18 January 2017 — The American Physical...
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Title: Fossil Records of Outbursts From Supermassive Black Holes and the Effects of Outbursts on the Evolution of Gas Rich Galaxies, Groups, Galaxy Clusters (Video)
Abstract: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play key roles in galaxy and cluster evolution. This is most clearly seen in the "fossil record" that is imprinted in the gas rich atmospheres of early type galaxies, groups, and clusters by powerful...
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Title: Searching for the Secrets of the Non-Linear Universe (Video)
Abstract: We have no evidence that general relativity is wrong; every precision test is a resounding confirmation of this elegant and powerful mathematical model. Trouble is: the greatest cosmological problems of our time (likely require) us to abandon general relativity. About 95% of the Universe...
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Title: Galactic Archaeology, Chemical Tagging, and Stellar Evolution (Video)
Abstract: Galactic Archaeology describes the ongoing effort to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of the Milky Way galaxy through the analysis and interpretation of (very) old stars. I will begin with an overview of Galactic Archaeology and then...
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Title: Tipping the Quantum World Critically Out of Equilibrium (Video)
Abstract: From the cooling of the early universe to quenching in magnets, driving a system through a continuous phase transition results in fascinating dynamics. Close to the critical point separating two phases of matter, the intrinsic relaxational timescale...
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Title: Science Policy for Scientists (Video)
Abstract: Science policy is the interdisciplinary field where science and policy intersect. Science policy includes a wide array of topics where science and policy rely on each other. In this talk, we will focus on the ways that policy impacts science and how you, as...
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Title: SDO, The Sun, The Universe (Video)
Abstract: The Sun is our paradigm for how stars evolve and behave. It is the only star whose surface is well-resolved in time and space. It is the only star which local helioseisomology can look into and through. It is also the only star with a well-resolved corona. One tool we use to study the Sun is the Solar Dynamics...
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Title: How a Student's Daydream About Stellar Spectra Became one of the World's Most Important Digital Libraries, the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (Video)
Abstract: In 1979 I was daydreaming out the window of the Kresge Library when I had a vision of stellar spectra as occupying points in an n-dimensional vector space, where n was the number of resolution...
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Title: Explaining the Diversity in the "end state" of Galactic Evolution (Video)
Abstract: Early-type galaxies (elliptical and lenticular galaxies) are high-entropy stellar systems, all galaxies will eventually tend toward such states (perhaps sped up by interactions with other galaxies). Many early-type galaxies are also high-entropy gaseous systems, essentially...
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Students on the astronomy FSP arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday, January 9. Tuesday was a day of orientation and a tour of the University of Cape Town and...
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